# The perfect actor if they made... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468 "2004-03-20T22:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/1 "2004-03-20T22:49:36Z")
_Half-Life_: Johnny Depp as Dr. Gordan Freeman. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/2 "2004-03-21T00:10:30Z")
Me if they make a **Wonder Woman** movie 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/3 "2004-03-21T02:21:47Z")
Mine’s been done already: I can’t imagine a more brilliant casting than Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. Also I think Jeremy Davies would have been far superior to Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates in the remake of _Psycho_. (Well, actually the remake never should have happened, but if it was going to anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/4 "2004-03-21T07:06:29Z")
Nah, Edward Norton would make a perfect Gordon. He’s got the off-kilter “smart-nerdy” look down, whereas Depp is just brooding-dark “trendy-nerdy”. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/5 "2004-03-21T11:09:07Z")
**William H Macy** as Mr. Wormold if they’d make another film version of _Our Man in Havana_ (although I’ve never heard him do a British accent). ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/6 "2004-03-21T17:03:31Z")
John Cusack, Johnny Depp, or Vince Vaughn as reluctant superhero Jack Knight in a movie of Starman, based on the DC Comic written by James Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/7 "2004-03-21T17:42:38Z")
_The Dark Tower_ books-Adrian Paul as Young Roland, possibly Clint Eastwood as Old Roland. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/8 "2004-03-21T19:16:54Z")
Treat Williams in the Oliver North story. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/9 "2004-03-21T21:22:59Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#): > > _The Dark Tower_ books-Adrian Paul as Young Roland, possibly Clint Eastwood as Old Roland. YES! Well, not the Clint Eastwood thing. I can imagine him squinting his way through the role, and it does not appeal. I can’t imagine a better actor though, so you win this round. 😉 Anyone but Gwyneth Paltrow as Villanelle in the version of Jeanette Winterson’s _The Passion_ that is currently in the works. She is just not a Villanelle. [Irene Grazioli of The Red Violin](http://www.sonyclassical.com/music/63010/photo8.html), perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfect-actor-if-they-made/235468/10 "2004-03-21T23:00:52Z")
> [@lillalette](#): > > YES! Well, not the Clint Eastwood thing. I can imagine him squinting his way through the role, and it does not appeal. I can’t imagine a better actor though, so you win this round. 😉 My girlfriend and I decided on Adrian Paul after we started TiVoing Highlander reruns and he pulls off so many time periods/costumes/accents in a reasonable fashion. I agree that Eastwood is kinda unsatisfying and squinty, and it may just be the art from _Wolves of the Calla_ and my love of Sergio Leone movies influencing me, but he [looks the part](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0309377/Ss/0309377/BWC-611R.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Eastwood,%20Clint) and has the experience in gunfighter-type roles to pull it off, I think. There aren’t too many old guys who can pull off the aging badass gunfighter. Tom Berenger does good work in _Peacemakers_, but he doesn’t look old enough. I’d cast Christopher Walken as Walter, because Walken is a god of evil. You know who else would rock? Christopher Lee. Johnny Depp would play Eddie.